Hue Jackson preferred Carson Wentz all along. Or was it Jared Goff? Or Jimmy Garoppolo?

Hue Jackson's Browns entered December without a win for the second consecutive season.

In 2016, Hue Jackson's Browns were 1-15 and were outscored by an average of 11.8 points per game.

In 2017, Jackson's Browns are 0-12 and are being defeated by an average of 11 points per game.

Jackson, you might have guessed, is fighting for his job.

And with the worst month on the Browns' calendar upon us, it seems clear that "December in Berea" will end in one of three ways:

1. Jackson and the majority of the Browns' top personnel executives will be fired.

2. Jackson will be fired, and Sashi Brown and his staffers will be given one last chance to show that their process was the correct one.

3. Brown will be fired, and Jackson will improbably have won yet another Browns power struggle.

We don't see any way that Jimmy and Dee Haslam will go with the status quo heading into 2018 — not only because of the terrible results, but because Jackson has made it abundantly clear that he's at odds with the front office.

Jackson and then-quarterbacks coach Pep Hamilton "were blown away" by Wentz's predraft workout, according to Cabot, and they were "instantly sold on him as their quarterback of the future."

That workout, we're led to believe, vaulted Wentz over Goff in the minds of the coach.

These four sentences from Cabot's story tell us everything we need to know about the mess that AGAIN is the dynamic between the Browns' front office and coaching staff:

Others assumed that Jackson was partial to Goff because he had coached at Cal and had the inside track to him. He also workout out [sic] Goff privately and spent extra time with him pre-draft. It behooved him not to show his hand so as to throw off other teams, the source said.

But Wentz was the real apple of his eye, the sources said.

When Cabot wrote that, Wentz and the Eagles were 10-1 and had the best record in the league.

The 24-year-old quarterback (now 10-2 after Philly lost at Seattle on Sunday night) is third in the league in QBR (72.4), sixth with a 102.0 passer rating and tops the NFL with 29 touchdown passes.

He's a younger version of Ben Roethlisberger, with maybe some Aaron Rodgers mixed in.

What coach wouldn't want Wentz at this point? Better yet, what coach would want it known that he DIDN'T WANT WENTZ at this point?

Jackson clearly wants us to believe that he doesn't fall into the latter category, even if all of the reporting prior to Sunday — most of it from the NFL Network's Mike Silver, a close friend of Jackson — said that Jackson was on board with the Browns passing on Wentz, and that he preferred Goff. And to be fair: Goff, after a bad rookie year, has been pretty darn good for the Rams in 2017.

To show just how much Jackson's opinion on the QB class of 2016 has evolved, let's circle back to Silver's past reporting.

— After the Browns' debacle of a Halloween, when they failed to execute a trade for Bengals backup A.J. McCarron, Silver tweeted that the two QBs Jackson "has wanted most since taking over are Goff and Garoppolo." (A day before the Browns were willing to give up second- and third-round picks for McCarron, whom Jackson coached in Cincinnati, the 49ers acquired Jimmy Garoppolo from the Patriots for a second-round pick.)

— On May 1, after Silver had spent the 2017 draft with the Browns, NFL.com posted an extensive story by Silver titled "The Cleveland Show."

In that piece, Silver said Jackson "was blown away" (there's that description again) by Robert Griffin III's workout with the Browns, and thus the coach "became less desperate to draft Goff."

— Also in that story, Silver wrote that "neither Jackson nor Brown were as convinced about Wentz, nor was Brown's analytics team (chief strategy officer Paul DePodesta said publicly the Browns didn't believe he was a "top 20" quarterback)."

— Eight months earlier, on Aug. 31, 2016, NFL.com had another long Silver piece on Jackson and the Browns, titled "The First 33 Weeks: Inside Hue's rebuilding project."

Then, Silver again made it clear that Jackson favored Goff over Wentz. From his story:

From the start of the scouting process, Jackson was locked in on Cal quarterback Jared Goff, whose quick release, exceptional decision making, accuracy and arm had the coach envisioning him as a franchise quarterback for years to come. While some other NFL coaches and executives felt North Dakota State's Carson Wentz was as good a prospect as Goff (or better), Jackson, whose team had the second overall pick in the upcoming draft, believed it was Goff or bust.

— That piece had a quote from Jackson on Griffin's now-infamous workout with the Browns. Let's just say it's one the coach would probably like to have back.

"Other than Carson Palmer coming out of SC, this might have been the best quarterback workout I've ever seen," Jackson said in the story. "I mean, it was phenomenal."

To recap:

Jackson, according to Cabot, preferred Wentz all along.

Jackson, according to Silver, always wanted Goff, followed by Garoppolo, plus he agreed that the Wentz trade was the correct move, and he LOVED RG3.

It's possible the coach really did like Wentz, no matter how much he loved Goff. (The Browns, after all, had the second pick, and Goff was off the board.)

It's also possible that Jackson was feeding his preference of Goff to Silver, knowing that pretty much everyone would believe it, because of their friendship.

But it's also pretty convenient that the latest storyline was pushed to Cabot now, with Wentz one of the leading contenders for league MVP, and Jackson a leading candidate to be fired the day after the season ends.

The truth often seems to be in the middle.

When it comes to Jackson, though, the coach's "truth" seems to center around which storyline will make him look the best — even if that means the storyline changes more often than his team switches QBs.

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